From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V95 #29 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 95 : Issue 29 201 subscribers Today's Topics: One more thing!! Benjamin David Yang Temko Not so wierd this time... Benjamin David Yang Temko Hello, all : strange things I do at work... Benjamin David Yang Temko Re: Fan club Vince Mora More on Steel Dan Friesen, Alex Greetings from a new subscriber DJRJ89073 @ aol.com ------------------------------ Subject: Level42 Digest V95 #29 From: bentemko @ mindspring.com (Benjamin David Yang Temko) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 10:26:17 -0500 For all of you folks here in the US who a) get TBS b) watch the Braves regularly... Didja ever notice : someone over at Turner Sports likes Level 42. Their stuff gets played during the fade to half inning breaks ALL OF THE TIME!!! Most often it's "Heaven In My Hands", but I've also heard "Man", "Something About You", "Guaranteed", and once I even heard "Hot Water" when the Braves were getting creamed, which I thought was hysterical. Just curious... I'll shut up now. Benjamin ========================= Benjamin David Yang Temko bentemko @ mindspring.com temko @ mathcs.emory.edu bdt @ indcomp.com "If a string has one end, then it has another end." -Miksch's Law ========================= ------------------------------ Subject: Level42 Digest V95 #29 From: bentemko @ mindspring.com (Benjamin David Yang Temko) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 10:20:54 -0500 I just remembered two things: 1) Count me in on the T-Shirt thing. I would suggest perhaps the graphics off of the "Staring At The Sun" CD? Cool stuff. 2) Related : I have tried to join the fan club 4 times now. The first time, way back in '85, I got a reply, sent in my money, and about 2 months later got my mail returned to me saying address unknown. This happened twice more, and the fourth time I never got a reply at all. The WHOLE idea was for me to get some posters, some special order stuff I can't get here in the states, etc. DOES THIS CLUB EXIST???? Did it ever? If so, How do I join? I WANT POSTERS!! Thanks for info, all! Benjamin ========================= Benjamin David Yang Temko bentemko @ mindspring.com temko @ mathcs.emory.edu bdt @ indcomp.com "If a string has one end, then it has another end." -Miksch's Law ========================= ------------------------------ Subject: Level42 Digest V95 #29 From: bentemko @ mindspring.com (Benjamin David Yang Temko) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 10:13:04 -0500 A warm, enthusiastic greeting to all LevelHeads! This is my first time speaking up - I've been lurking for quite some time now, trying to feel my way into things, but now I've just decided to hell with it. My name's Benjamin, I live in Atlanta, GA (anyone else in GA on this list? Drop me a line! Hell, ALL of you drop me a line!!), and have been a die-hard LevelHead since I first stumbled across "Standing in the Light" waaay back when (BTW - if "Hours By The Window" isn't the single most chillingly depressing song ever written, I'd hate to hear its rival - "I couldn't kneel to please the God that failed you..." YOUCH!! (on the other hand, perfect for those oh - so - angsty teen years...)). I am prompted to speak up today because of a really funny thing I did at work which I thought I would share with you in the interest of, well, in the interest of public humiliation, I suppose. Lately I've been really getting into "Lying Still" off of the World Machine album. To step back for a moment, the reason I'm such a 42freak was originally the fact that I am a bass/baritone vocally, and Mark's vocal range is exactly in line with mine. I could sing Level42 songs at the top of my lungs (and frequently did) and not harm myself a bit (try doing this with any Journey song, all you bass/baritones out there - it doesn't work...). I even went through a period where I was mimicing Mark's quasi - vibrato which sneaks into the end of his lines. Anyway, I'm a computer geek by trade (although I have arranged several L42 songs for a-capella chorus, most recently "A Kinder Eye"), and so at work I'm usually forced to put on headphones and listen to my music so I don't upset anyone in the shop. Today was no different, with one small exception. I had my "World Machine" disc in, and had programmed it to play the first 5 songs, then "Lying Still" TWICE, then the other 4. By the end of the 1st run through "Lying Still" I was humming quietly, and by the end of the second time though I was singing at the top of my lungs (and singing the high bits in my falsetto, which is quite under-developed, by the way), completely oblivious to the fact that everyone else around me had stopped their work and was staring at me. After the fade out, I was all primed to go back and play through the song again (I was good and warmed up by then) when I happened to look out the door and see the President of the Company, whose office is directly across from mine (a fact I never seem to remember), standing in the hall looking in at me. "What was THAT?", he asked. "Lying Still, by a band called Level 42", I answered in as dead - pan a voice as possible. He looked at me with what I can only describe as a completely blank look. Then he said, "I know WHO it was - I was asking you what it was YOU were doing." I looked at him with what I can only describe to you as a look devoid of intelligence. You know the one I mean - as if someone had walked up to you on the street out of the blue and screamed "RADISHES CAUSE WARTS!!" in your face and then ran off. The reaction you might have to that was the reaction I had to this. "Apparantly not as well as I thought," I said. He nodded. Then he walked back into his office and SHUT THE DOOR. I wasn't sure whether to feel relieved that he wasn't going to fire me or hurt that he didn't like what was a heart-felt performance on my part. *sigh* Anyways, hello to all in Cyberspace! Thanks for having such a great list! Benjamin PS - I'm sorta kinda gonna make a Level42 Web Site - I just looked through the Level 42 home page - I can't even approach that kind of effort - just a sort of personal tribute to the band on my own terms. Anyone got any suggestions? Right now I've scanned in all of the album covers and I'm busy with lyrics and such... ========================= Benjamin David Yang Temko bentemko @ mindspring.com temko @ mathcs.emory.edu bdt @ indcomp.com "If a string has one end, then it has another end." -Miksch's Law ========================= ------------------------------ Subject: Level42 Digest V95 #29 From: Vince Mora Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 05:25:56 -0600 (MDT) Angel writes: > I wanted to know if the home page is correct about the Level 42 fan > club still existing in London. Er, no it's not ... :-) The "Original FAQ" on the Web page is a document written up by Elson from the days of old (namely, before the band broke up). Much of the info in it is outdated. Elson, what shall we do with this FAQ? Would you like to revise it, or shall we put it to rest? I could incorporate any leftover useful info from it into different areas on the Web page ... Vince ============================================================================== vince mora aka net.veteran.since.1989 http://www.swcp.com/synth/ synth oberheim synthmedia ltd rocks the www! mailto:synth @ swcp.com ============================================================================== "In Soviet Union, World Wide Web browse YOU!" ------------------------------ Subject: Level42 Digest V95 #29 From: "Friesen, Alex" Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 09:58:45 -0500 From a friend of mine, a major Steel Fan: >Yes, there is a new relesae called Steely Dan "Alive In America", >a 60 minute plus cd from the '93 and '94 tours. With the exception >of a Walter Becker song from his solo lp "11 Tracks of Whack" the >remaining cuts are all Dan rehashes e.g. Aja, Green Earrings, >Bodhisattva. (There is not even one from either of Fagen's solo >efforts). Any Dan material is reason for excitement. but a new >studio effort defintely would have been more welcome. ...Alex... "Drink Scotch whiskey all night long / and die behind the wheel..." ------------------------------ Subject: Level42 Digest V95 #29 From: DJRJ89073 @ aol.com Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 16:08:45 -0400 Greetings fellow Level heads, I just wanted to say hello to all the Level 42 fans all over the world. It's very nice to have found that so many people appreciate L42's music. I'm a 29 year old student and DJ/musician in Austin, Texas. I've been a Level 42 fan since World Machine came out and have been steady trying to fill in the holes in my collection. You'll be hearing from me in the future. Nuff respect to Synth for the homepage and to Ernie Longmire for the discography. Positively, DJ-RJ.